HTML & CSS: The Good Parts (Animal Guide)

Abstract

This book gives strategic advice for how to use HTML and CSS. It's not a comprehensive introduction to HTML and CSS that would take a much larger book. It reminds me of the Effective C++ books by Scott Meyers: advice on how to make good use of the language, not a syntax tutorial. It sometimes explains what to do but not how to do it. In those cases, the book gives links to a companion web site with more details. If you have some experience with HTML and CSS, but feel like you're not using the tools as well as you'd like, this would be a good book to pick up. I appreciate that the author endorses the spirit of web standards without being a language lawyer. Sometimes you have to make compromises.